Condensed Matter Theory Center
Fall 2010 Symposium
November 2-4, 2010 2205 Physics Building
November 2, 2010 COLD ATOMS 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Stephen Powell, “Hofstadter spectrum of interacting lattice bosons” Ryan Barnett, “Quantum dynamics in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic condensates” Hoi Yin Hui, “Exact rotor mappings of many particle bosonic systems”
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Jason Kestner, “A prediction of a novel topological ‘Haldane liquid’ phase of ultracold polar molecules in a 1D lattice” Bin Wang, “Bose-Fermi solid and its quantum melting in a one-dimensional optical lattice” Qi Zhou, “Inter-band coupling induced novel condensates in a double-well lattice”
November 3, 2010 QUANTUM COMPUTATION 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Jay Sau, “Topological superconductivity and Majorana Fermions at semiconductor/superconductor interfaces” Chien-Hung Lin, “Majorana fermions in nanowires without gating superconductors” Shuo Yang, “Numerical simulations and stability diagrams of the real quantum dots systems” Sunny Wang, “Hubbard model description of charge stability diagram for semiconductor double dots”
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Eddy Barnes, “Decoherence of an electron spin qubit in a nuclear spin bath” Nga Nguyen, “The effect of an impurity on the energy spectrum of two-electron quantum dots” Qiuzi Li, “Anisotropic surface transport in topological insulators in proximity to a helical spin density wave”
November 4, 2010 GRAPHENE 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Euyheon Hwang, “Electron-phonon interaction in graphene” Hongki Min, “Electronic structure of multilayer graphene and its applications” David Abergel, “The compressibility of graphenes and the effect of disorder”
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Lunch Break